What amazes you? During the last few months I have been amazed by the outpouring of love that I have seen and experienced. This amazing love has been bestowed on myself and my family. It has come through the love and support of friends and family. I have seen a Christian brother and sister who were without jobs give sacrificially to help financially support my family. I have been amazed as God provided jobs for these people, I believe in response to their faithfulness.
As I was reading the Bible I came across this verse, in 1 John, you can almost hear the amazement in John’s voice. “See what great love” yes, a great love that cannot be explained. A love for which there can be no answer. How can you justify the privilege of being called the children of God? And, yet that is exactly what we are. If you have been washed by the blood of the lamb, then you are a child of God. Yes, God is your Father (this is a major reason Satan wants to destroy the family, if he can change and distort the world’s view of a father then he can lessen the impact of God being our Father) John’s amazement can be felt as he puts word to paper, “and that is what we are!”
We became His children through His lavishly bestowed gift, a love so great it is amazing to think of. Although we are His children, we often times don’t feel like a child of the most high God. The answer is simple we do not live by feelings (sight) but by faith. If God has said something is so, then how we feel is of slight importance. We must decide, will we live in the truth of God’s word?
Lord help each of us to live in faith and truth, and in thanks for the amazing gift you have bestowed on us, the privilege to be sons and daughters of God.
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”
1 John 3:1 NIV
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